Canadiens 4 - Capitals 1: Brought to You By the Number...
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Power play opportunities the Capitals had. They squandered seven of those chances. Granted, scoring on 12.5% of your power play chances on a team that has been 88.3% effective in killing penalties is pretty good. Unfortunately, the Caps were well below their season power play effectiveness of 17.2%. Granted, the differences between 12.5% effective and 17.2% effective is a scant .376 goals, but when a team that averages 5.69 times shorthanded a game gives you 8 power play opportunites, a team must take advantage of it.
The Capitals did not. Indeed, they only got one power play goal (courtesy of Alexander Semin with 2:56 left in the third and Washington trailing by 2 still) on a mere 7 shots. While the Caps did outshoot the Habs 31-27 (Kolzig only had a 85.2% save percentage vs. Huet's 96.8%), their power play was unable to generate the chances they needed.
Power play opportunities the Capitals had. They squandered seven of those chances. Granted, scoring on 12.5% of your power play chances on a team that has been 88.3% effective in killing penalties is pretty good. Unfortunately, the Caps were well below their season power play effectiveness of 17.2%. Granted, the differences between 12.5% effective and 17.2% effective is a scant .376 goals, but when a team that averages 5.69 times shorthanded a game gives you 8 power play opportunites, a team must take advantage of it.
The Capitals did not. Indeed, they only got one power play goal (courtesy of Alexander Semin with 2:56 left in the third and Washington trailing by 2 still) on a mere 7 shots. While the Caps did outshoot the Habs 31-27 (Kolzig only had a 85.2% save percentage vs. Huet's 96.8%), their power play was unable to generate the chances they needed.
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